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VESALIUS, ANDREAS. Anatomes totius, aere insculpta delineatio. With commentary by Jacques Grévin. Full-page woodcut arms of the dedicatee, Philippe de Boulainvilliers-Dammartin, on title verso; 47 engraved engraved plates on 40 leaves by Thomas Geminus after Jan van Calcar. [2], 52 leaves. Folio, 385x263 mm, modern reversed leather; occasional marginal soiling, scattered ink blots on text leaves, some plates possibly washed, folding plate of Adam and Eve torn and mounted with slight image loss, repaired clean tears across plates facing D3r and E1v not affecting image. Bookplate of Crawford W. Adams, M.D. (lot 152 in his sale at Sotheby's New York, 5 May 1982). Paris: André Wechel, 1564
first grévin edition of Geminus's Vesalian piracy (see lot 278), the first to appear in France, with the illustrations printed from the original plates by Geminus;first issue, with title dated 1564. Cushing VI.C.-5; Tchemerzine (1977) III, 500.
